Revision Overall (D)
Description: Revision Overall (D) | |
Number of Questions: 15 | |
Created by: Avani Handa | |
Tags: Revision Overall (D) Error Identification Others Best Expression |
Directions: Out of the answer options given below, select the sentences that make coherent sense grammatically as well as thematically.
(A) The mayor continually asserted that one of the crucial strengths of the political system is each individual having the right to determine which way he or she will vote. (B) The concept of hypocrisy applies to morals; a person should be good and not merely seem so, and a bad person is little mended by pretence of goodness. (C) Having done the job, it was natural for Somesh to think of a well deserved rest. (D) I, for one, is the person who could not have been a silent witness.
Directions: The following sentences or parts thereof may have an error of grammar or syntax. Select the sentence(s)/part(s) thereof having the error.
(A) But there are some things that need to pass over, (B) to appreciate the profound skill of the architects. (C) The upper portions are so admirably proportioned (D) as they taper up to a comparatively slight finial with the most perfect gradations.
Directions: The following sentences or parts thereof may have an error of grammar or syntax. Select the sentence(s)/part(s) thereof having the error.
(A) He insisted at contesting the election, though he was sure of his defeat. (B) This is the same incident that I have witnessed yesterday. (C) Prudence requires that we should meet the dangers that threaten us, (D) by turning all our philosophy, science, and art, into practical common sense.
Directions: The following sentences or parts thereof may have an error of grammar or syntax. Select the sentence(s)/part(s) thereof having the error.
(A) The question here is not of autonomy but devolution of power to the grass root level. (B) It is past that unfortunately historians insisted on clinging to. (C) There are a few rules with regard to costuming, which put one a long way. (D) on the road toward elegance and has economic value as well.
Directions: Out of the answer options given below, select the sentences that make coherent sense grammatically as well as thematically.
(A) Often visible as smog, ozone is formed in the atmosphere from hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides, two major pollutants exhaled by automobiles, reacting with sunlight. (B) Visitors to the zoo have often looked up into the canopy and saw monkeys sleeping on the branches, whose arms and legs hang like rocks on a clothes line. (C) That he agrees with you does not signify that his reasons are the same as yours. (D) Although the manager agreed to a more flexible work schedule, he said that it must be posted on the bulletin board so that both management and labor will know what everyone is assigned to do.
Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.
Parents should develop a mental checklist, which might include: the child's whereabouts during free time, whether homework has been completed, behaviour at school, and TV-watching habits.
Directions: Out of the answer options given below, select the sentences that make coherent sense grammatically as well as thematically.
(A) Choose only such friends that you can trust. (B) The prevailing custom among farmers of keeping their clocks fast and to which attention was called is attracting good humoured banter. (C) Many a man could accomplish the task and indeed have accomplished it. (D) Everybody has forgotten the prophecies; they usually do so very soon.
Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.
The proposal to privatize loss making government companies, like the national airline and the postal department, that were put forth by the Indian government were less harsh when compared to other SAARC members, which advocated total privatization
Directions: Out of the answer options given below, select the sentences that make coherent sense grammatically as well as thematically.
(A) Unlike a typical automobile loan, which requires a 15 to 20% down payment, the lease loan buyer is not required to make an initial deposit on the new vehicle. (B) The cameras of the Voyager II spacecraft detected six small, previously unseen moons circling Uranus which doubles to 12 the number of satellites now known as orbiting the planet. (C) He disapproves of your insisting that the rope of pearls was purposely misplaced. (D) Architects and stonemasons, huge palace and temple clusters were built by the Mayans without benefit of the wheel or animal transport.
Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.
The introduction of UID is expected to help India assign a unique number to its population and will be able to distribute resources effectively than the present PDS system.
Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.
The human mind, in its quest to reach the highest peak, and still unexplored vistas, fails to discriminate between right and wrong, and secondly, the mind loses its capacity to foresee the implications of its acts of today.
Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.
Open debates would be of immense help to thinkers and scientists of every religion in attempts to formulate point of view on this critical question of morality related to chromosomal manipulations, tissue culture, and in-vitro fertilization to clone human life.
Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.
The vaporous byproducts of human activities create gases, like carbon dioxide, which traps vast amount of heat resulting in the increase of earth's temperature, which boosts sea level, shifts seasons.
Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.
A study of this nature calls for data on the monitoring of shopping behaviour of consumers, factors which motivate consumers to shop in large stores, influence of 'non-shopping' factors, the 'after-thoughts' of consumers after the experience and the demographics and psychographics of consumers.
Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.
The scientist had to place a distance between himself and nature, for the greater the number of scientists in the world, the greater is the amount of sentiments attached to the nature.